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Asli Cakir Alptekin , who won Olympic
gold at London 2012 before being
stripped of the title, has been banned
for life by the Turkish Athletics
Federation for a third doping offence ,
state- run Anadolu news agency have
reported .
According to a Reuters report , Alptekin
won the 1500 metres title in London , a
race where six of the first nine finishers
have served drugs bans before or since,
leading some to refer to it as the
“ dirtiest race in history ” .
The 32 - year - old was stripped of her
2012 Olympic and European titles in
2015 and suspended for eight years by
the Turkish Athletics Federation .
She returned to the track this year,
however, after the ban was halved and
its start date backdated to 2013 . She
finished 11 th in the European
Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country
event in Portugal in February .
“ Asli Cakir, who wrote history by
winning a gold medal in the 2012
London Olympics , has received her
third punishment for doping, ” Anadolu
said on Friday.
“ We will never ever give ground to
those who become involved in doping .
Everyone should know this,” Turkish
Athletics Federation Chairman , Fatih
Cintimar told Anadolu .
The IAAF, athletics’ governing body, has
not responded to a Reuters request to
confirm the suspension.
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